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2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Dental Hygiene, B.S., Online Completion Degree


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College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences


Department of Allied Health Sciences


Dental Hygiene Online Completion Degree Program


P.O. Box 70690
Phone: (423) 439-7888
FAX: (423) 439-4030
103 Hutcheson Hall
Web address: www.etsu.edu/crhs/alliedhealth/bsdh

 

The online BS degree completion program in dental hygiene is limited to licensed dental hygienists who hold an associate degree in dental hygiene from an accredited US or Canadian dental hygiene program. All prospective students must make application to the program and the university. This completion degree program is designed to build on the dental hygienist’s prior education and experiential learning and its flexibility and online format allows the working hygienist to complete a BS degree at her or his own pace. All course requirements for this program are online. However, all students are required to attend a one-day on-campus program orientation. After successful completion of DHYG 3100, students are allowed to progress in the program as long as they do not make two D’s or one F in any of the online dental hygiene courses. Otherwise, there are no grade point requirements other than passing the required courses.

General Program Information


To earn a degree from ETSU, there are specific course requirements established by ETSU, by the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR), by each college, and by each department. All students must meet the degree requirements at each of these levels outlined in the following list:

University-level Degree and Graduation Requirements


Total Credit Hours for Degree: 121


TBR General Education Requirements: 41 Credit Hours


Listed below are the categories and courses specified under TBR General Education Requirements. Note that certain courses are required for this degree, specific to this major. Thus, these courses will satisfy both a TBR General Education requirement AND a requirement of this major. (Other majors may require different General Education courses.) Where specific courses are required for this major,  only those courses are listed under the category. If there are no specific major requirements for a category, all course options appear.

Communication


9 credits, consisting of 6 credits of written composition and 3 credits of oral communication.

Written Composition


Complete both of the following: 

Oral Communication


Complete one of the following:

Humanities and Fine Arts


9 credits, consisting of 3 credits of literature, 3 credits of fine arts, and 3 credits of humanities electives.

History


6 credits, consisting of both of the following:

Natural Sciences


8 credits, consisting of two of the following (some require labs which are listed directly after the lecture):

(Note: Students pursuing a Bachelor of Science in the College of Arts and Sciences must select 8 credit hours in a SINGLE laboratory science. Please see listing in College of Arts and Sciences B.S. Degree Requirements for options.)

Mathematics


3 - 4 credits, consisting of one of the following:

  • (3 credits)
  • (3 credits)
  • (4 credits)
  • Note:

    Students will enroll in the appropriate general education math course during their first calendar year of enrollment at ETSU. Students required to complete learning support in mathematics must enroll in a learning support-designated section (L01-L99) of MATH 1530  during their first 15 hours at ETSU (not including summer) unless they are also required to complete learning support in reading or writing. Students needing learning support in reading or writing in addition to learning support in math should enroll in MATH 1530-Lxx immediately upon completing their other learning support requirements. Additional information may be found on the University Advisement Center website www.etsu.edu/uac/learningsupport/

Dental Hygiene Major Requirements


In addition to meeting general education core requirements for the university, completion degree students will complete 17-18 hours of online dental hygiene course credits. Successful completion of DHYG 3100 will allow transfer for associate degree courses consisting of 46 lower division hours and upper division course credit of 16 hours for DHYG 3031, 4021, 4121, 3120, and 4000. Students must complete the following online courses:

Minor: no minor required


Dental Hygiene Intensive Courses


At the present time the following dental hygiene courses have been designated as intensive courses to meet university general education requirements. Writing-Intensive (WI) courses are DHYG 4010  and DHYG 4120 . Oral Communication-Intensive (OCI) courses are DHYG 4010  and DHYG 4130 . Our Using Information Technology (UIT) or technology intensive course is DHYG 4020 . Dental Hygiene Completion degree students will meet ETSU requirements for intensive courses by taking these courses within their major.

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